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Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by pleurotus »

miriam_catira wrote: post #100
smokedetector1 wrote: post #2

The other week my wife and I were disagreeing over whether a house was green or blue. I was shocked when every passerby we asked agreed with her that it was green. I was absolutely 100% sure it was blue. Turns out according to this site, my boundary is greener than 95% of the population! Funny to see this proved out here!

...I get different numbers depending on which eye I use, but both are fairly center. I didn't expect blue-green to be affected though! My left eye can't see certain shades of red as well as my right eye. Bright sunlight makes it more noticeable, but my own skin looks weirdly (sickly) yellowish with one eye and normal with the other. Whenever it's come up at home, my spouse simply insists "I don't need to know the dif…

...I never found another person with the same experience. Here we are. For me though, it's not that sunlight makes it more noticeable, it's that I will see the same shades until I've had too much sunlight—eventually my left eye gets tired, I guess, and sees a lot less red than my right eye. After sleeping it resets and I see the same shade in both eyes. Maybe i should talk to a researcher about this..

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by Rapzid »

I don't find this compelling as it seems to me it's well acknowledged there are colors that are BOTH. As in there are colors widely considered to be blue-green. Blue and Green.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by danbmil99 »

Dunno if this is a late-in-life thing or I was always like this, but I definitely need more blue to see blue than most (this test put me at 82%, I think that means I'm in the lowest quintile for seeing blue?) Bright blue still looks mighty blue, but when light is dim, I basically see black where most would still see blue.

Practical ramifications: * Some of my 'black' shirts are blue when it's sunny * Popular desktop themes (solarized dark) have text that is completely unreadable

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by torginus »

danbmil99 wrote: post #114

Dunno if this is a late-in-life thing or I was always like this, but I definitely need more blue to see blue than most (this test put me at 82%, I think that means I'm in the lowest quintile for seeing blue?) Bright blue still looks mighty blue, but when light is dim, I basically see black where most would still see blue. Practical ramifications: * Some of my 'black' shirts are blue when it's sunny * Popular desktop…

I think your monitor or room lighting might just be different from others'

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by Rapzid »

miltonlost wrote: post #58
seemaze wrote: post #31

This makes no sense. It's like asking: "Alice is in Denver. Is Alice in (a) Canada or (b) Mexico?" - Your boundary between Canada and Mexico is at 40° latitude, more southern than 53% of the population.

Your example would only be valid if "blue" and "green" had objective answers for when something is Blue and something is Green and have clear demarcated boundaries. You're switching to a literal boundary example where there are actual lines to be crossed. Colors are a fuzzy continuum; national boundaries, not including fought-over areas like the Sea of Japan, are easy to be in or not.

> Colors are a fuzzy continuum

Denver is teal, the USA blue-green. Canada is Blue, and Mexico is green.

Their analogy is pretty on point.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by Glyptodon »

I don't like this because many of these transition colors I don't really consider blue or green but some sort of blue-green or green-blue.

I would also trust the results more if it bounced you around a bit randomly rather than tried to center you in. It gets to a point where I don't really have confidence and I suspect the environment around me contributed a fair amount at that point.

Seem to get ~172.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by turboladen »

danbmil99 wrote: post #114

Dunno if this is a late-in-life thing or I was always like this, but I definitely need more blue to see blue than most (this test put me at 82%, I think that means I'm in the lowest quintile for seeing blue?) Bright blue still looks mighty blue, but when light is dim, I basically see black where most would still see blue. Practical ramifications: * Some of my 'black' shirts are blue when it's sunny * Popular desktop…

Same here at 82%, although I don’t think I’m seeing blues as black.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by dc96 »

Noticing on my monitor that it's more blue if I tiptoe and look down, and it's obviously green when looking at below.

I think a better way to standardize this without too much variance in color would be make the user denote on the screen where they are actually looking perpendicular to the screen and judge from that area.

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